Trump’s D.C. death penalty threat is a dangerous assault on civil rights

President Trump announced on Tuesday that federal prosecutors on the Washington DC should do. Call the death penalty For the murders committed in the capital, without explaining that “we have no other option”.

“This is a very strong preventive,” he said. “I don’t know if we’re ready in this country, but we have it.”

Trump’s statement is much more than to deterre the murders. With speed and cruelty, Trump seems to intend to create a new, federal arrest and detention system, except for the existing norms controlled by daily citizens. The death penalty is a part of it, but to focus on civil rights is in his heart – to ruthlessly exploit the concern about the crime to disturb the migrant protesters to killers.

This management uses “criminal and criminal words to get a permission structure to erode the civil rights and the necessary processes in our guilty, legal and immigration systems to worry about the necessary processes,” he said. He is an old public defender working together now Fwd.usA two -party criminal justice group.

The authoritarians loved the death penalty and used it to suppress the opposition, not the crime for a long time. As a result, both the ultimate power and the final fear hold the lives of the ruler of the state.

Even though we are far from such persecution, the liquidation of “communists” and other opponents under the direction of Francisco Franco of Spain, Rodrigo Duterte’s unjust murders of drug dealers in the Philippines (although the death penalty remains illegal here) and routine executions, Even journalistsThere are creepy examples under the oppressive rulers in Saudi Arabia.

What each of these regimes shares a common thing in America is the discourse of doing – by liquidating the perceived threats – even if it requires a loss of power or rights.

Suddenly, violent criminals are not different from small criminals, and small criminals are no different from immigrants or protesters. They are all a threat to the nostalgic loss of homeland of the homeland that should be restored at any expense. animal This just understands power.

“We don’t have the option.”

As a result, people are afraid that they will be the hunted animal, if they are not accustomed to masquerade agents and the army on our streets, and they are too scared to protest.

Already, the national guard on DC is carrying live weapons. They are not educated for internal law enforcemental forces with great respect for women and men who work in the guards and who serve individually with honor. Forget the legislation, the constitution and the Posse Comitatus law, which should prevent troops from being able to prevent American citizens and prevent them from arrest.

Who do we want these soldiers to shoot? Who was told to shoot? A child with a box of spray paint? Is it a pickpocker? Is it a drug dealer? A flag burner? Is it a sandwich shooter?

We don’t even know what their orders are. Which choices will have to make.

However, we know that the police did not open their weapons clearly and certainly did not circulate with rifles. For civil law enforcement forces, their weapons are defensive weapons and are trained to use them in this way.

These troops are very little walking, even adhere to the law, the power of these weapons cannot feel ready. It is a visceral knowledge that provoking them can mean death. This is a strong form of pressure to stop the opposition for fear of reflection.

A power built by Trump on multiple fronts. After the DC declared the “crime emergency”, Trump required a serious change in the mission of the national guards.

He ordered every state to train soldiers “Questioning civil disorders,” And in case of protest, the soldiers are ready to move quickly. The same executive order also creates a national guard power that is ready to be deployed throughout the country under the command of the President – probably the right to decide when to use the troops of states, as in California.

Trump has already explained his intention to send them to Chicago, and he called Baltimore and wrongly called “Hellhole in California. You wouldn’t have the Olympics If I hadn’t sent the troops ”because without interventions,“ nothing left ”.

The former acting vice president of the National Guard Office, retired major Gen. Randy Whey Told to ABC “The administration is trying to insensate the American people to get used to American armed soldiers in the war vehicles patrolling the streets of America.”

He called this movement “extremely disturbing ..

Add Trump’s desire to imprison competitors. FBI recently Former National Security Advisor raided John Bolton’s houseHe is a Republican who criticizes Trump about his policy towards Ukraine. Then Trump Lisa D. tried to ignite Cook, After blaming the mortgage fraud in another prominent attempt to bend this independent agency on the will of the Economy.

On Wednesday, Trump wrote on social media This progressive billionaire George Soros and his son Alex should be accused of federal tribute laws to support violent protests ”.

“We will no longer allow these drills to break down America, we will never give me a chance to be breathing and be free, Tr Trump wrote. “Soros and his psychopathic group have caused great damage to our country! This contains his crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we watch you!”

Imagine that you threaten yourself, West Coast friends.

But of course, we already live under that thunder. Dozens of Average citizens face serious charges In places including Los Angeles for their participation in migration protests.

Whether guilty or not, their lives rise with the anxiety and expense of confrontation with such prosecution. And thousands of people are rolled and deported, sometimes only caught for the color of their skin, migration and customs execution, the undisputed most Trump-Loyal law enforcement force, sees the budget Balloon for 45 billion dollarsEnough to detain 100,000 people at a time.

Despite Trump’s scary movements, the resistance is far from being alive, good and empty.

A new Quinnipiac University National Survey 56% of voters do not approve National Guard deployed in DC

This week, the US Law Office on the DC could not convince a large jury to blame a man who threw a submarine sandwich to federal officers – the average citizens proved that they were not only sane, but also to stand up for the right thing.

Coming later A large jury rejected three times A accusation of the same kind of woman who was arrested after being pushed to a wall by an immigrant agent.

In November, California will decide to redraw election maps to put more democrats in the Congress. Latin leaders in Chicago protest the possible troops there. People refuse to allow their fear to define their actions.

Apparently, we have an option.